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"Add a rightwing media ecosystem manufacturing consent and obeyance in advance, along with a weak and divided opposition offering feeble resistance. Join all the dots, critics say, and America is sleepwalking into authoritarianism."

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #authoritarianism #education #immigrants #LawandOrder #courts #media
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"Nearly all the actions that he's taken in the first 60 or so days of this shameless and shameful regime are the authoritarian versions of policies Republicans have been fantasizing about for most of the century."

~ David Pepper

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #authoritarianism #education #immigrants #LawandOrder #courts
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https://thecause.substack.com/p/the-trump-regime-had-a-54-year-and

"In 1978, when [Václav] Havel writes of Czechoslovakia, he is also writing of America in the future:

'Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past, it falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future.'”

~ Heidi Cuda

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #authoritarianism #education #immigrants #LawandOrder #courts
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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hot-type-being-braver-than-we-want

"Fridays are becoming bloodbath day in the federal workforce. In the same way that bad news stories used to be held for Friday late afternoon, that’s when we now hear about a lot of these firings. Midafternoon, I heard that the Department of Homeland Security had essentially abolished all its international civil rights and detention abuse agencies."

~ Josh Marshall

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #firings #workers
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/friday-firings-becoming-the-norm

"They abolished the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and the Office of the CIS Ombudsman. ...

Just a few moments ago I heard that USAID had terminated about 160 personal service contractors."

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #firings #workers
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"These are longterm contract positions for people whose brief is to shepherd aid deliveries abroad. They serve as the U.S. government’s eyes and ears to make sure the money is used for what it’s meant to be used for, that it gets to the intended recipients."

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #firings #workers
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"Musk, who serves as a senior adviser to Donald Trump, posted about judges who ruled in opposition to the administration more than 20 times within 48 hours this week on X, the social network he owns, repeatedly framing them as radical leftist activists and seeking to undermine their authority."

~ Nick Robins-Early

#Musk #Trump #DOGE #Republicans #FederalGovernment #destruction #chaos #fascism #courts #judges #LawandOrder
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/22/elon-musk-doge-judges-usaid

@wdlindsy
It is difficult for Trump to be aware of details that he is actively trying to ignore.